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Mandibular Osteotomies

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Orthognathic surgery involves segmental movements of the tooth-bearing maxilla and/or mandible for the correction of skeletal deformities. This chapter focuses on the various osteotomy techniques available for mandibular repositioning. As for any surgery, the pathway towards an optimal outcome in orthognathic surgery involves precise diagnosis and planning. This requires careful clinical history-taking and examination, dental/orthodontic consultation, standard photography and cephalometric analysis, an appraisal of patient expectations, and conventional laboratory or computer-assisted model surgery and splint fabrication. These preliminary steps are covered in depth elsewhere in this text.

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  1. Section of Plastic Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Mitchell A. Stotland MD, MS & Jeffrey Y. Wu MD

  2. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Derrick C. Wan MD

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  1. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

    Peter J. Taub

  2. Division of Plastic, Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery; Pediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Pravin K. Patel

  3. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Craniofacial Anomalies Program, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Steven R. Buchman

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Stotland, M.A., Wu, J.Y., Wan, D.C. (2015). Mandibular Osteotomies. In: Taub, P., Patel, P., Buchman, S., Cohen, M. (eds) Ferraro's Fundamentals of Maxillofacial Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8341-0_31

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